Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , to model human institutions , a strong focusing preference of wine over table ( or , more generally , of theme over optional sentence participants ) seems to be required . |
| 2 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 3 | He proposed that the assumed uniform distribution of forces over any section within the specimen was a limiting state to which the forces in the real specimen approached , the further away from the extremities was the section under consideration . |
| 4 | The threat of a serious military confrontation with Ecuador over long-disputed territory in the Condor Range Amazonian border region , was reported to have faded by Oct. 29 . |
| 5 | NINE people froze to death in the central Russian region of Chuvashia over the weekend as strong winds accompanied a sharp fall in temperature , Itar-Tass news agency said yesterday . |
| 6 | Midland 's Seven Days ' Notice Deposit Account offers a competitive rate of interest , regular statements and access to cleared funds , while the Fixed Term Deposit Account is aimed at customers requiring an investment for a specific period , with a higher and guaranteed fixed rate of interest over the stated term . |
| 7 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 8 | I have been lucky to secure European Community funding to attend a conference on the proposed EC Coastal Directive , being run by the European Environmental Bureau in Copenhagen over the 1st and 2nd of May . |
| 9 | Mubarak reportedly emphasized the " pressing " need for pan-Arab unity in the face of a possible renewed confrontation with Israel over the resettlement of Soviet Jews in its occupied territories , at a time when the US-sponsored peace formula for the region had been rejected by Israel . |
| 10 | Such economies of scale must be distinguished from savings through fuller utilization of existing capacity , which spreads the fixed costs of a specific existing piece of plant over more units . |
| 11 | I used Winsor & Newton 's cadmium orange , cadmium yellow light , cadmium red light , permanent rose and dioxazine purple to lay on a flat basic pattern of colour over the shoes . |
| 12 | At any particular moment the books might not appear to balance ( for example electrical energy input could be stored to be released as heat later , or energy taken up while forcing the deuterium into the palladium may be returned later U the deuterium leaks out and recombines in the atmosphere ) , so the relevant question was whether there was a net excess output of energy over a long period of time . |
| 13 | The breakaway union is balloting its members for a one-day token strike in protest over the amended pit closure plans . |
| 14 | Japanese environmentalists have protested to the International Olympic Committee in Birmingham over Japan 's offer to host the 1998 Winter Olympics . |
| 15 | This decided to consider , at the next ( 45th ) session of the Assembly , the establishment of an international criminal court with jurisdiction over international drug-trafficking cases . |
| 16 | Indeed , the major underlying concern in debates over pornography , homosexuality , abortion , the age of consent , divorce and drugs during the period under consideration here has been the welfare of children . |
| 17 | Once installed in government , however , the Labour Party embarked upon an energetic legislative programme including the establishment of the Department of Economic Affairs ( DEA ) under George Brown with the remit of formulating a national plan , and the Ministry of Technology under Cousins , a leading light of the leftward movement in the trade unions since the '50s ; the repeal of the 1957 Rent Act attacked by Labour as a ‘ landlord 's charter ’ and associated with ‘ Rachmanism ’ ; the development of comprehensive education ; the development of regional policy in an attempt to alleviate the relatively high unemployment and slow growth of the depressed areas of the UK dependent on declining industries ; the 1965 Trade Disputes Act , which gave union leaders full legal protection from actions over breach of employment contract ; and the Redundancy Payments Act . |
| 18 | In the long term the crowning of Charles by Leo III led to an increasing papal claim to power over the imperial ruler of the West , but short-term benefits to Charles were clear . |
| 19 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 20 | The US Congress is expected to raise the Mexican government 's patchy environmental record during discussions over proposed free trade agreements . |
| 21 | We might be reading this morning 's dreary inconclusive state of play over secondary picketing . |
| 22 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 23 | STEPHEN Hodgson maintained his 20-fight unbeaten record with victory over Welsh champion Chris Adams in the national schools boxing championships semi-finals at Liverpool on Saturday . |
| 24 | The biblical argument over the slave trade and slavery was thus of immense significance but took on particularly sharp controversial form in Liverpool over the Rev. Raymond Harris ' ( Don Raymondo Hormaza ) Scriptural Researches ( 1788 ) which tried to ground the legitimacy of the slave trade in scripture . |